Thursday, September 8, 2022

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 147: THE LEADER

(All American Comics 025, 1941)


A masked man running a gang of saboteurs to ruin production of war goods as a US steel plant in the name of a vague Cause - at this time most likely fascism - is pretty run-of-the-mill for 1941, but it turns out that the Leader's real scheme is to drive down the steel mill's stock price so that he can gain a controlling interest and make big bucks! He's just duping the fascists-or-maybe-anarchists-or-communists into doing his bidding! The real villain was capitalism all along!

Sadly for the Leader, his tale of villainy ends like so many that take place in steel mills: with him plummeting into an open vat of molten metal.

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